Lotusphere 2009 Fully Live
Sametime Unified Telephony click-to-call
& single number finding. Interesting stuff. I've
seen it before.
Sametime 8.5 announced. Including iPhone browser support. What I want to know is: what's it run on?
Persistent meeting rooms. More than just chat rooms -- they have strong security controls and document repository. ST Connect plugin to go to meeting room in rich client.
"Industry-standard format" = QuickTime!??! That's a surprising claim. Then again, he didn't say "open."
Jeff Schick - VP of social software. "How do you measure the gains of collaboration?"
Major customer examples and a huge emphasis on "real value."
"We will make Connections even easier to deploy" I hope so!
Demo time...
News feeds on your personal homepage. Micro-blogging capabilities in Connections. New Wiki capabilities as well.
I can't help wondering if Connections is experience overwhelming feature-creep. I've personally had a lot of experience with this platform, and while it does some great things, when I see this presentation, I feel absolutely buried in the number of options.
Quickr time...
"Enable Quickr to scale infinitely" That is a huge statement. To channel Han Solo... "I dunno... I can IMAGINE quite a bit."
ECM repositiory integration to FileNet. The room feels neutral. I wonder how many people in the room have FileNet. Ten? Twenty?
This is really all the same stuff that they bait & switched us with two years ago.
Mac & Linux support coming (plugins presumably.)
Xpages for Quickr coming (which could be quite cool.)
Larry Bowden, VP Portals & Mashups. Here's the black sheep...
Talking about customer retention. That's thickly ironic. "Customers are flocking to the web" Is it 1997?
I'm noticing that ALL the logos are yellow now. No more purple separation.
More partnership announcements. Is it just me, or is there a serious cross-portfolio focus on partnership announcements?
Lotus Mashups -- this is a platform I wish I had time to explore. It's a cool idea, but I've read the iWidget spec and it's insanely complicated.
Demo time...
Showing a portal wrapper around email. Is there an iWidget container for iNotes? How'd I miss that?
It's so interesting that the mashup story is "situational applications" -- where it's about the end-user constructing their own applications. "How many of you have had success in getting IT to add your personal data to your applications?" None - of course. But don't they understand that this is the idea that Notes such a horrid reputation? We've been untangling that mess for a decade now.
Online Services next. Sean Polley.
LotusLive Engage, it's a subscription service for "the best of Lotus collaborative solutions." It's really the same demos we saw before, except these are cross-company. So we can do the same kinds of expertise search as Profiles, but across companies.
"All you need to do is click a button to connect to our cloud" Yeah, if you HAVE CONNECTIVITY!!!
Integration with Notes being shown.... drag & drop files from Notes mail posting directly to LotusLive. Directly initiating meeting from Notes, and make the files part of the presentation.
Mobile integration with live presentations on the mobile device WHILE YOU'RE TALKING. That's totally sick. And it's a great reminder that I need to get a new Blackberry.
Partnerships with salesforce.com, LinkedIn and Skype. Holy crap.
Kristen Lauria, new VP of marketing. Here's a woman with an incredible opportunity, who will struggle during her entire tenure with upper management who doesn't want to commit resources.
"I don't have time to go into the specifics of the strategy."
"Smarter Planet" ad featuring Lotus. This is a HUGE rip-off of "the Machine is Us/ing Us." Certainly something worth ripping off, but man.... bring Wesch out on stage so I can genuflect appropriately.
Sametime 8.5 announced. Including iPhone browser support. What I want to know is: what's it run on?
Persistent meeting rooms. More than just chat rooms -- they have strong security controls and document repository. ST Connect plugin to go to meeting room in rich client.
"Industry-standard format" = QuickTime!??! That's a surprising claim. Then again, he didn't say "open."
Jeff Schick - VP of social software. "How do you measure the gains of collaboration?"
Major customer examples and a huge emphasis on "real value."
"We will make Connections even easier to deploy" I hope so!
Demo time...
News feeds on your personal homepage. Micro-blogging capabilities in Connections. New Wiki capabilities as well.
I can't help wondering if Connections is experience overwhelming feature-creep. I've personally had a lot of experience with this platform, and while it does some great things, when I see this presentation, I feel absolutely buried in the number of options.
Quickr time...
"Enable Quickr to scale infinitely" That is a huge statement. To channel Han Solo... "I dunno... I can IMAGINE quite a bit."
ECM repositiory integration to FileNet. The room feels neutral. I wonder how many people in the room have FileNet. Ten? Twenty?
This is really all the same stuff that they bait & switched us with two years ago.
Mac & Linux support coming (plugins presumably.)
Xpages for Quickr coming (which could be quite cool.)
Larry Bowden, VP Portals & Mashups. Here's the black sheep...
Talking about customer retention. That's thickly ironic. "Customers are flocking to the web" Is it 1997?
I'm noticing that ALL the logos are yellow now. No more purple separation.
More partnership announcements. Is it just me, or is there a serious cross-portfolio focus on partnership announcements?
Lotus Mashups -- this is a platform I wish I had time to explore. It's a cool idea, but I've read the iWidget spec and it's insanely complicated.
Demo time...
Showing a portal wrapper around email. Is there an iWidget container for iNotes? How'd I miss that?
It's so interesting that the mashup story is "situational applications" -- where it's about the end-user constructing their own applications. "How many of you have had success in getting IT to add your personal data to your applications?" None - of course. But don't they understand that this is the idea that Notes such a horrid reputation? We've been untangling that mess for a decade now.
Online Services next. Sean Polley.
LotusLive Engage, it's a subscription service for "the best of Lotus collaborative solutions." It's really the same demos we saw before, except these are cross-company. So we can do the same kinds of expertise search as Profiles, but across companies.
"All you need to do is click a button to connect to our cloud" Yeah, if you HAVE CONNECTIVITY!!!
Integration with Notes being shown.... drag & drop files from Notes mail posting directly to LotusLive. Directly initiating meeting from Notes, and make the files part of the presentation.
Mobile integration with live presentations on the mobile device WHILE YOU'RE TALKING. That's totally sick. And it's a great reminder that I need to get a new Blackberry.
Partnerships with salesforce.com, LinkedIn and Skype. Holy crap.
Kristen Lauria, new VP of marketing. Here's a woman with an incredible opportunity, who will struggle during her entire tenure with upper management who doesn't want to commit resources.
"I don't have time to go into the specifics of the strategy."
"Smarter Planet" ad featuring Lotus. This is a HUGE rip-off of "the Machine is Us/ing Us." Certainly something worth ripping off, but man.... bring Wesch out on stage so I can genuflect appropriately.
